INDEX 



[Nature, Nov. 27, 1890 



Sofia, Earthquake at, 160 



Solar Activity, Prof. Tacchini, 378 



Solar Activity from January to June 1890, 526 



Solar Corona: Photographs of the Total Eclipse of January i, 



1889, 37 ; a Mechanical Theory of the, Prof. Schaeberle, 68 ; 



Actinic Light of the Solar Corona, Prof. Frank H. Bigelow, 



138 ; Frank H. Bigelow on the Solar Corona, 529 

 Solar Prominences, Two, Jules Fenyi, 656 

 Solar Radiation, Theory of, W. Goff, 600 

 Solar Spectroscopy, on Photographs of the Invisible in, Prof. C. 



Piazzi Smyth, 578 

 Solar Spectrum, Telluric Lines of the, M. J. Janssen, 138, 526, 



555 

 Sole, the Common, Rev. William Spotswood Green, 520 

 Soleil, le, et les Etoiles, Gabriel Dallet, 221 

 Soltwedel (Dr. F.), Death of, 16 

 Solutions, Properties of, Report of the British Association on, 



531 , 



Solutre, Palseontological Explorations at, M. A. Arcelin, 534 



Sonnblick, Winter Expedition to the, Dr. J. M. Pernter, 273 



Sorby (H. C, F.R.S.), Lantern Slides of Invertebrata, 93 



Soricidce, Recent Classification of, R. W. Shufeldt, 567 



Sound, Light, Heat and, Chas. H. Draper, 197 



South America, Natural History Notes from, W. Larden, 115 



South Wales, University College of, 108 



Southbourne-on-Sea, on some Decomposed Flints from, Cecil 

 Carus- Wilson, 7 



Spearman (Edmund R.), French Police Photography, Alphonse 

 Bertillon, 642 



Sparrowr, the English, in North America, 161 



Spectre of the Brocken, 43 



Spectrum Analysis : Objects for the Spectroscope, A. Fowler, 

 20, 37, 67, 89, III, 137, 161, 182, 208, 235, 256, 281, 303, 

 330, 354, 377, 404, 428, 459, 487. 5", 526, 555, 576, 600, 

 619, 649 ; Prof. J. Norman Lockyer, F.R. S., on the Spectra 

 of Comets, 20, 112 ; the Spectrum of Comet Brooks {a 1890), 

 112; A. Fowler, 162 ; Spectroscopic Observations of Spec- 

 trum Analysis, 67 ; Photographs of the Nebula in Orion, 

 Prof. J. Norman Lockyer, F.R. S., 92; Spectroscopy at the 

 Paris Observatory, 112; M. Deslandres, 650; Greenwich 

 Spectroscopic Results, 209 ; Lightning Spectra, W. E. 

 Woods, 236, 377 ; Comparison of the Spectra of Nebulae and 

 Stars of Groups I. and IL with those of Comets and Aurorae, 

 Prof. J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 342, 393 ; Prof. A. Cornu 

 on Spectroscopy, 399 ; Objects having Peculiar Spectra, Prof. 

 E. C. Pickering, 429, 619 ; the Telluric Spectrum, M. 

 Janssen, 138, 526, 555 ; Dr. G. H. Bailey on the Spectrum of 

 the Haloid Salts of Didymium, 530 ; Prof. C. Piazzi Smyth on 

 Photographs of the Invisible in Solar Spectroscopy, 578 ; the 

 Spark Spectrum of Gadolinium, 584 ; Spectroscopic Observa- 

 tions (Sawerthal's Comet 1881 I., and )8 Lyras), Dr. Nicolaus 

 von Konkoly, 650 



Spencer (Prof. J. W.), on the Origin of the Great Lakes of 

 America, 23 



Spencer (Walter), Changes Produced in Circulation and Respira- 

 tion by Increase of Intracranial Pressure, 261 



Spica, Double Star, 90 



Spiders : Geometrical, the Spinning Apparatus of, 117; American, 

 and their Spinning Work, Henry C. McCook, 244 ; Spider 

 Carrying Young on its Body, Hulke, 403 ; Sexual Selection 

 in Spiders, R. I. Pocock, 405 



Spiers (Rev. William), Rambles and Reveries of a Naturalist, 

 172 



Spiny Plants in New Zealand, Geo. M. Thomson, 222 



Spitzbergen, Prof, von Nordenskiijld's Proposed Expedition to, 

 64 



Spontaneous Ignition and Explosions in Coal Bunkers, Prof. 

 Vivian B. Lewes, 271 



Sports, Dr. Maxwell T. Masters, F.R.S., 154 



Sprengel (Dr. H., F.R.S.), the Origin of Melinite and Lyddite, 



519 



Squirrel's Tail, the Use of the, L. W. Wiglesworth, 255 



Stachyose, a New Crystalline Carbohydrate extracted from Bulbs 

 of Stachys tuberifera, by Drs. von Planta and Schulze, 255 



Stanley (H. M.), in Darkest Africa, 223 



Star-ftshes, Sense of Smell in, M. Prouho, 240 



Stars : Stellar Proper Motions, J. Bossert on, 20 ; Changes in 

 the Magnitudes of, Isaac Roberts, 68 ; Double Stars, Spica, 

 90 ; on the Parallax of, Arthur A. Rambant, 112 ; the Mass 

 of Shooting-stars, C. C. Hutchins, 90 ; New Variable in 

 Cygnus, 112 ; Variable, near the Cluster 5 Messier, 460 ; Prof. ^ 



S. C. Chandler on Variable, 528; Prof. M. Yarnall's Stnt 

 Catalogue. 236 ; Photographs of Stellar Spectra, 282 ; Enlarge- 

 ment of Photographs of Stellar Spectra, 303 ; Catalogue of 

 Red Stars, Rev. T. E. Espin, 354 ; Comparison of the Spectm 

 of Nebulae and Stars of Groups I. and 11. with those of Come' ; 

 and Aurorae, Prof. J. Norman Lockyer, F. R.S., 342, 393; 

 Stellar Variability, Prof. J. Norman Lockyer, F. R. S., 415, 

 .1545; 'he Parallax of /3 Orionis, Dr. Gill, 487; Photograpli- 

 ing Stars in the Daytime, Prof. Holden, 576 ; Stars haviii^' 

 Peculiar Spectra, Prof. E. C. Pickering, 619 

 Statistics : Dice for Statistical Purposes, Francis Gal ton, F.R.S., 



13 



Steam Jet, Electrification of a, Shelford Bid well, F.R. S, 91 



Steam Life-boats, J. F. Green on, 533 



Stearin Manufactory, Curious Electrical Phenomena observed 



in a, no 

 Steel and Iron, W. Marshall Bayl ey on Factors of Safety in the 



Use of, 534 

 Steel-making Plant (New), of Park Gate Works, C.J. Stoddart,- 



356 

 Steel-making at Sheffield, Crucible, 355 

 Steere (Dr. J. B.), New Species Discovered in the Philippine 



Islands, 486 

 Stevens (S.), Scarcity of Insects in Devonshire, 287 

 Stevens (W. Le C), Microscopic Magnification, 311 

 Stewart (Dr. G. N.), Electrolysis of Animal Tissues, 398 

 Stewart (R. Wallace), an Elementary Text-book of Light and 



Heat, 567 

 Stilling (Herr), Medical Treatment by Anilin, 208 

 Stockholm, the Royal Academy of Sciences, 144, 216, 584 

 Stockwell (Prof. J. N.) : Secular Inequalities in the Moon's 



Motion, 256 ; Ancient Eclipses, 354 

 Stoddart (C. J.), New Steel-making Plant of Park Gate Works, 



356 

 Stone Implements, the Present Use of, in Australia, W. T. 



Wyndham, 18 

 Stoney (F. G. M.), on the Construction of Sluices for Rivers, 



534 



Storms, M. Faye on the Theory of, 45 ; Prof. Cleveland 

 Abbe, on Deductive Methods in Storm and Weather Pre- 

 dictions, 574 ; Prof. H. A. Hazen, on Storm Generation, 583 ; 

 E. B. Garriott, on the Origin of Storms, 583 ; the Law of 

 Storms, Everett Hayden, 648 



Story of the Heavens, Sir Robert Stawell Ball, LL.D., 614 



Straw-Fungi, Measles and, C. Candler, 243 



Stream Lightning, W. B. Croft, 126 



Stress, the Distribution of Flow in a Strained Elastic Solid, C. 

 A. Carus-Wilson, 94 



Strettel (G. W.), Teneriffe, 648 



Striges in the Australian Museum, Dr. E. P. Ramsay, 486 



Struve (Dr. Hermann), Satellites of Saturn, 600 



Subject-Index and the Royal Society, F. Howard Collins, 

 126 



Subjective Colours, Experiment in, W. B. Croft, 391 



Sugar, a Guide to the Literature of, H. Ling Roth, 636 



Sugar, Inverted, the Alcoholic Fermentation of, 24 



Sugar-cane Seeds and Seedlings, D. Morris, 91 



Sugar-canes, Seedling, 258 



Sullivan (Prof. W. K.), Death of, 64 



Sulphur in Organic Bodies, Method for Estimation of, Berthelot, 

 Andre, and Matignon, 288 



Sun, Photographs and Drawings of the, 282 



Sun, Rotation of the, Prof. N. C. Duner, 138 



Sun-birds and Flower Fertilization, G. F. Scott-Elliott, 279 



Sun-dial, Portable, Adjustable for all Latitudes, Philip's, 554 



Sun-spots, Fine Group of, W. F. Denning, 457 



Sunday Society : Prof. G. J. Romanes, F.R.S., Elected President 

 of, 34; his Opening Address, 211, 597 ; Sir Joseph Hooker 

 on the Opening of Kew Gardens on Sundays, 212 



Sundevall's Tentamen (Methodi naturalis avium disponendarum) 

 tentamen), translated by Francis Nicholson, 3 



Sunset, Green Flash at, T. Archibald Dukes, 127 



Superficial Viscosity of Water, Lord Rayleigh, Sec.R.S., 282 



Surface-Tension and Surface Viscosity, 545 



Surgery of Infancy and Childhood, Selected Subjects in Con- 

 nection with the, Edmund Owen, 316 



Siiring (Dr. R. J. ), Vertical Decrease of Temperature with 

 Height in Mountainous Districts, and its Dependence on 

 Amount of Cloud, 329 



Surveyors' Institution, R. F. Grantham on the Encroachment of 

 the Sea on the English Coast, 87 



